Update for the week ending on Friday, Oct 10, 2025

mtlynch.io

Published new chapter, “Verbs Drive the Sentence”
Published new chapter, “Stay Positive”
Started writing “Practical Design Docs”
Bumped ebook version to 0.7.1
Got a workflow working where customers receive a welcome email after purchasing the book
- This took SO long to get right. So many gotchas with Stripe, Buttondown, and Netlify.
- The workflow is that Stripe sends a webhook to my custom Netlify function, and my Netlify function adds the customer to my Buttondown mailing list, and I configured an Automation on Buttondown to send a welcome message
Reported bugs to Buttondown
- They fixed almost all of them within two days
Added an initial set of questions for freelance editing clients to answer
- I kept realizing I wanted to know this during the editing process and then kept forgetting to put it in the workflow
- This adds friction, but I think it’s okay because I would like to raise the bar slightly to ensure people working with me are putting in effort as well
Tweaked some grammar in the Adam Gordon Bell interview transcript

Proposed basic CI with Github Actions
- It turned out to be a controversial discussion, as the maintainer apparently doesn’t like CI but other contributors do
Introduce unit tests to the project with roca
Added support to bslint to identify unused function parameters

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